Burma
Fishy analysis
Reports of media censorship from Burma are hardly surprising, but the iron-fisted Censor Board has recently chosen an unlikely target: the fishing industry. The clampdown was
A certain desperation for some signs of hope on Afghanistan has accorded a broad-based welcome to Barack Obama's new policy, which appears to contain the promise of
Father told me that stealing is wrong. But what the hell, let´s hear it for Roopa of Hanumanthanagar, who Deccan Herald reports has been "resorting to vehicle-lifting
The Decaan Herald reports a brewing legislative battle in Karnataka on the subject of home toilets. The 1993 Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act lays down that you cannot contest village panchayat
The year 2008, for many reasons, is likely to go down in the annals of recent Tibetan history as a watershed year. This was the year when Tibetans in Tibet,
SRI LANKA
Flying green
With a global recession still in full swing, airlines the world over have been experiencing tough times. In Sri Lanka, not only are people travelling less,
With the LTTE and tens of thousands of civilians penned into an area of around 17 square km, the plight of civilians in the northern area of Sri Lanka known
Another World Press Freedom Day rolls along on 3 May. Seminars and rallies are to be held, prizes distributed and reports released, all to bemoan the lack of press freedoms
There was a long-held myth that the only manmade object visible from space was the Great Wall of China. Yet astronauts have since confirmed that Chinese cities at night
Sri Lanka is home to an array of ethnic groups, the smaller of which live partly outside the mainstream of society. Undoubtedly, the best known of these are the Veddah,
In March 2008, Bhutan ended its century-old system of absolute monarchy in favour of parliamentary democracy. This was a significant decision for a state that had always fought against
